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National Institutes of Health (NIH) Prokaryote API

#### Options to download prokaryote gene data, including the associated sequence and metadata.These gene services allow you to download gene and protein sequence, and metadata as a prokaryote gene data package, for prokaryotic [RefSeq non-redundant proteins](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/about/nonredundantproteins/).

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Prokaryote API is one of 15 APIs that National Institutes of Health (NIH) publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Prokaryote. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 2.0.5.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://clinicaltrials.gov/api/v2.

2 operations 2 paths 5 schemas 1 GET1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
2.0.5
Base URL
https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 1 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Prokaryote 2

Options to download prokaryote gene data, including the associated sequence and metadata. These gene services allow you to download gene and protein sequence, and metadata as a pr…

GET
/protein/accession/{accessions}/download
Get a prokaryote gene data package by RefSeq protein accession
download_prokaryote_gene_package 5 params → default200
POST
/protein/accession/download
Get a prokaryote gene data package by RefSeq protein accession
download_prokaryote_gene_package_post 1 param body → default200

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are v2ProkaryoteGeneRequest (4 properties), rpcStatus (3 properties), protobufAny (2 properties), v2ProkaryoteGeneRequestGeneFlankConfig (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

protobufAny
object
2 properties
v2ProkaryoteGeneRequestGeneFlankConfig
object
1 property
v2Fasta
string
rpcStatus
object
3 properties
v2ProkaryoteGeneRequest
object
4 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

nih-prokaryote-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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